High Tech High Student Panel 

Avery Delong 

Aidan Guilfoyle 

Isaac Zamora 

 
 

Slow Food San Diego: Project New VIllage  

Notes/Progress: This section should include the following: 

Organization Background, History, and Current Operations 

Slow Food San Diego Project New Village is a community garden that is open for 
public use for a fee of $5 a month per gardening box. The community can grow their 
own food and even sell them at the community farmers market. There are multiple 
independent gardens over all of San Diego.”​Slow Food Urban San Diego seeks to create 
connections and strengthen community around issues of critical importance, including 
environment, health, culture and equity, to San Diego’s food system.​” Slow Food Urban 

Problem Statement - What is the organization fighting to alleviate? 

The goal of the organization is to provide a healthy and cost-effective alternative 

to grow and eat healthy and affordable natural foods. They are fighting to help people of 
all communities lead a healthier and happier lifestyle. 

Participant and Community Description - Who does the organization serve? 

Project New Village serves the people in the community around them as well as 
letting people volunteer to help them learn about growing crops and expand their social 
consciousness. Slow Food Urban also rents garden boxes at community gardens for 
low cost, and help people towards certification to sell their produce at local farmers 
markets. 

Need for Your Work - Provide a description of the importance of your work! 

Our groups focus is to create marketing material for slow food urban. Because 
they are a non profit they have very little funds to work with, and rely mostly on 
volontere work. We will be creating posters in photoshop to bring awareness and show 
people what they can do to help, as well as detailing shocking facts about healthy food 
in the united states and sandiego.  
 November Fifth Deliverable: Food Environment Atlas

1. List why the data were collected (note: agency or organization typically lists a
reason for data collection on the website).
● To understand who has access to healthy food and how many people are
impacted by free or reduced priced food (free or reduced priced food is
subsidized food for people in lower tax brackets).​ Great! Can you define free or
reduced priced food for the layperson?
2. List variables included in the dataset.
Access and proximity to grocery store (Accessibility to sources of healthy food, as measured by
distance to a store or by the number of stores in an area. Individual-level resources that may
affect accessibility, such as family income or vehicle availability. Neighborhood-level indicators
of resources, such as the average income of the neighborhood and the availability of public
transportation. USDA​),​ store availability, restaurant availability and expenditures, food
assistance, which includes ​(the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) SNAP and
, Women, Infant, and Children (WIC))​, state food insecurity (​the state of being without reliable
access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food)​, food prices and taxes, local foods,
health and physical activity, socioeconomic characteristics, like ie. income, gender, and
ethnicity.
3. List how data were collected and during what year.
● Center for Disease Control and Prevention was the primary data collector
● The data werewas collected during 2015
4. Provide the summary statistics for 5 variables in your dataset. Interpret these
figures in context of the variable.

Population, low Population, low Low income & Low income & Children, low
access to store access to store low access to low access to access to store
(total #) (%) store (total #) store (%) (total #)
Min 0 0 0 0 0
Max 886068.6684 100.000001 292541.789 72.27445607 292541.789
Mean 20153.45651 23.1651725 5550.30391 8.372244578 5550.30391
Median 4097.827186 19.88727788 1500.036126 6.150026797 1500.036126
Q1 1661.076794 14.04817974 592.9830695 3.440457326 592.9830695
Q3 12936.23535 26.39464133 4584.070081 10.32493522 4584.070081

5. Represent data on two of the variables on a scatter plot, and describe how the
variables are related.
The blue dots represent the county’s population’s access to grocery stores. As you can see,
there is a good amount of variability in the access. The red dots represent the percentage of
obese adults. The percentage is very low compared to the actual number because the
populations of these countries are very large, however they can still make up a significant part
of the population because of the fact that it is, for example, 28% which when your county has
3.38 million people that is 120.7 thousand.

6. Fit a function to the data graphed in #4. Interpret the slope and y-intercept in the
context of the data.
The slope shows that at the further end of this chart there are more counties that have less
access to grocery stores. The Y-intercept shows that in Alpine there is little to no people who
have too little access to grocery stores.

7. Calculate the correlation coefficient of the data graphed in #4. Interpret this value
in the context of the data with a description of the difference between correlation
and causation.
The correlation coefficient is 0.03707908141, this means that there is not much of a correlation
between low access to grocery stores and obesity. There is a slight positive correlation though.
 Food Equity Limitations
Some Limitations we had with our data set, was how the data had so many
outliers, that the mean and median were extremely different. Because of this we were
unable to plan any solutions because all of the locations where so different and, without
more information the data shows inconclusive information.

Another limitation was because the data showed 100+ data points per county in
all of the US, we were unable to analyze all of the data. Because of the short time we
had we looked at an overview of all of the data, and attempted to simplifi what we have
learned. However because we took a random sample and did not research all of the
data some of our information was wrong.

If we were able to replicate the data, we would cocos on specific aries, ie san
diego county, and subdivisions to get a clearer picture of the information. We would also
focus on specific variables and value quality over quantity.